On Angels' Wings: My flight from trauma to grace

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She has been careful not to name or identify any of her abusers and won’t give me further details of their identities; she has legally changed her own name. Almost everyone wants to believe in guardian angels; the idea of someone or something watching over us. Sometimes the idea of guardian angels can lead to many misadventures considering ‘ the road to Hell is paved with good intentions’. It is simply a question of whether the guardian is truly up for the job. Crashing Down to Earth by Terry Reid Garry said most memory was unreliable, faded over time, and there were even cases where people had come to believe almost impossible things had actually happened to them. This book had a traumatic effect on me. I didn’t sleep all the night after reading it. I kept thinking about myself…at what point I would have completely broken? Nobody is meant to go through this. I believe angels were there to help her when she was, but God was most definitely weeping. Oh no, not me! he answered. Paradise as you see it doesn’t suit a prankster like me at all. He held up a flaming-red autumn leaf before my astonished eyes.

The thing is, if you do a general Google search on books about angels, you are going to find a plethora of books…and most of them are written by white women, with a tendency to fall into the conservative Christian interpretation of angels. And while there are some very good books within this category, there are also some amazing stories outside this white feathery room. Stories that would usually be glanced over because they are not the usual ‘book about angels’. For a change of pace, let’s imagine angels aren’t the good guys. Not just fallen angels; ALL angels. In fact, let’s imagine there is a war between angels and humans (and no, we are not winning). Angelfall is not your standard “angels are good”, nor is it truly a ‘redemption’ theme. It’s a post-apocalypse YA with a similar vibe to Hunger Games. There is a redemption arc with one of the characters, but the driving force is with Penryn and her quest to save her sister. Different enough from most angel-centric books out there. Not the Usual Books About Angels… No, my friend, she answered my unspoken question. The shadows you see haven’t liberated themselves from their earthly bonds, although their silver cords were loosened long ago. They are Earth-bound souls who are mourning their former existence. Some of them are lost, some of them are discontented and disappointed, and some of them are chained to their own sins and misfortunes. They refuse to move on. Am I going to live here with the shadows? Who are they? I couldn’t help but ask. My angel girl was sweet as candy – her blond hair and rosy cheeks could have been painted by Botticelli. Was I dreaming? Was I really dead? Was this something that you used to call purgatory down on Earth?My name is Jolith, and I am your guardian angel, she continued. Jan, your physical body is dead, but you are alive! As long as the silver cord still remains between you and your earthly body, your eyes will be veiled. When it is broken, we will see where your free will leads you. I will remain with you for some time yet, but the day will come when you won’t need me anymore. A pair of hands clutched mine. I was lifted through walls and roof, and I caught a glimpse of a large entity dressed in white that pulled me with him/her, gently but resolutely. The dog-leash was still there, but I didn’t care, because it obviously could be stretched quite a long way. We flew through the air like in some science-fiction novel. ‘Maybe there was some truth in such novels,’ I thought, who used to write very down-to-earth prose myself. I didn’t see any church towers and neither any landscape, the way you see it from an airplane. Maybe the clouds surrounded us, maybe it was some other fog, because my sight wasn’t clear. It grew dark now, and it felt as if we were going through a tunnel. I closed my eyes. The hands of the unknown entity still clasped mine in a firm grip, and strangely enough, it felt safe and pleasant.

donate, please visit: www.gutenberg.org/donate Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works. If you think I exaggerate on occasions, then I ask the reader to try to understand me. Here I don’t live on raw herring and potatoes, here our diet is of a different kind, so I mostly try to be moderate. But it is not small potatoes (as we say in Sweden) that this book will deal with, it is something tremendous and quite inconceivable. It is unbelievable and magnificent! We are going to travel in worlds where only one law applies: the Cosmic Law, where the harmonies meet the disharmonies, to be perfected in a minor-major chord of fantastic beauty. Slow to take off because it throws you into a fully created world of angels and magic and je ne sais quoi. The main character is an orphaned girl adopted by demon magicians and often sent on missions to collect teeth (a very rough summation but that is the quirk of the book). The ‘angels’ for this book are “Seraphim”– watchers who are looking for these same demons. When the orphan girl is instantly attracted to the angel watching over her, things get dicey. The main thing going for this book is the beautiful way of describing the mystique around angels and demons. Books About Christian Angels I have described my latest life on Earth in both autobiographical and educational books. But now I am going to tell you about my real life, the life I was born into the moment I breathed my last sigh on Earth.

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In part, she says, she was advised to keep her alleged abusers, and even the name of the gang and the sex club anonymous for her own safety, and also for the risk of defamation action. But she doesn’t expect any confrontation from those she accuses – paedophiles, she says, are “gutless, weak people”. I always knew I would write this book,” she says, “but I think for most of my life I have been shut down and told to shut up and threatened, and lost people when I dared to speak about it. This is but a small part of a living code, he continued, a living code that can shed its form, but which in turn is a part of eternity. The leaf fades, but still lives in full splendor and beauty, just like us humans. The closeness to Nature that humanity has lost today, is the key to her whole existence. If she loses that key, she will also lose the meaning of her life. She will be trapped in her ego, which will take over her thoughts and actions. She will become a victim of misguided and impure energies. Please let me tell you a story that will be the greatest of all the stories you have heard! This is a great book for the genre of Christian fiction, building on the Christian belief of angels and faith and prayer and redemption. Former national baseball star Tyler realises all he has missed out on while chasing the career of a lifetime. He eventually finds himself as the maintenance guy in a retirement home, making friends with Virginia, an elderly woman with Alzheimer’s disease. Through their friendship and the intervention of angels with faith on their side, Tyler has the opportunity to turn his life around again. Kingsbury definitely works some magic, balancing her loyalty to the genre of Christian-based angels with the softness of a sweet romance novel. Archangel (Samaria #1) by Sharon Shinn Ann-Marie Cahill will read anything and everything. From novels to trading cards to the inside of CD covers (they’re still a thing, right?). A good day is when her kids bring notes home from school. A bad day is when she has to pry a book from her kids’ hands. And then realizes where they get it from. The only thing Ann-Marie loves more than reading is travelling. She has expensive hobbies.

I have really tried to find Crashing Down to Earth variance in the storylines within this genre, and this one is definitely a bit different. It starts with the usual ‘guardian-angel-and-their-charge’ but here is a slightly different approach: for starters, those who the guardians protect are actually a part of them. A bit like the story of Eve taken from Adam’s rib, guardian angels now have a slightly more vested interest in those they are to protect. Human Hayley and her Angel Alex share an obvious connection with a very earthy relationship. Set in Glasgow (Scotland…is there really any other?), Hayley learns to live with a flatmate who is far more down-to-earth than an angel should ever be. When the standard ‘good vs evil’ battle arrives, it is their unique relationship that brings the story together. Gripping action scenes with some of the best banter I have read in this genre. The Cosmic Logos (Celestial Triad #3) by Traci Harding My purpose is to help other people,” she says, “to shine a light on this darkness so that people can find a voice… [Everyone] admits this is hugely under-reported. Most adult survivors of this are still living in shame.” The predominance of books about angels stems from their Christian foundation. The guiding messengers of God, with big white feathery wings to wrap you in His love and shelter you on your destined path. Whether you are religious or not, this is the image that has permeated throughout western culture and has become the ‘face’ of the genre. Many Waters by Madeline L’Engle When I awoke, life was smiling at me. Because what else other than life could bring me to such an idyllic place? I wanted to laugh out loud and dance around with my beautiful angel, who again was small and dainty. She smiled and said, Do it! Dance with me!There was “precisely zero evidence” that recovered memory was reliable, she says, and such memory tended to be a collection of snippets of images, thoughts and feelings, far from the evidentiary standard of an “organised, detailed ... logical, repeatable” memory. Another urban fantasy where a mortal girl finds a mysterious supernatural boy, who ends up being her (fallen) guardian angel. What follows is a forbidden romance with the ever-present question, “should angels and humans meet?” If you’re thinking there are similarities with Twilight, you are right. However, this delves a bit deeper into the ‘ why’ such a relationship is forbidden. Angels’ Blood (Guild Hunter #1) by Nalini Singh

Well, occasionally you have read about things like that. Jan’s spirit, that was me! I didn’t feel any different – but I was very curious! Jan was dead – long live Jan!Taking a break from the usual Meg-and-Charles adventures, Many Waters focuses on the twins, Sandy and Dennys. This is the fourth book in the L’Engle’s Time Quintet, and includes the same strong Christian themes characteristic of L’Engle. Sandy and Dennys accidentally teleport to a sandy desert. They are soon separated, cast on independent journeys of growth and discovery, yet all connected to the story of Noah’s Ark, shortly before the flood. While still maintaining the well-known spirit of L’Engle’s writing, this is definitely the most religious of her books. Angel’s Walking (Angel’s Walking #1) by Karen Kingsbury If you’re looking for books about angels with hot and steamy paranormal romance, then this is your book. In this alternate universe: angels are kingpins, vampires are hunted, and Elena’s new boss is the Archangel Raphael. However, while the premise is about Elena’s new mark (a wayward archangel), the real momentum of this book is in its paranormal romance and lots of beautiful people. It’s not a happy-rosy-romance either. It’s paranormal and sometimes gory. Let’s face it: Not all angels are pure light. Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor This is only the beginning, Jan, and not the beginning you think, the angel girl said, smiling gently. It will feel different when the cord has come loose. Part of you is still on Earth. This is not what you would call Heaven.